# Sentence: density, locality and nesting

How information is packed into sentences, so that the reader never holds more in memory than the sentence has resolved.

| Principle |
|---|
| [Even information density](even-information-density.md) |
| [Given before new](given-before-new.md) |
| [Shallow nesting](shallow-nesting.md) |
| [Short dependencies](short-dependencies.md) |

Their claims and grades are in the [standard](../../standard.md).